Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-03

darkest night their soul is irradisted, as
was the night over Bethlehem, by the
faces of thuse who have come to pro-
claim glory and good-cneer. They are
only waiting for the gate to open, and
the chains to fall of, and
THE GLORY TO BEGIN
remark again: There are many (snd
wish there were more) who are esti-
mating life by the amount Of good they
can do. John Bradford said he counted
that day nothing at all in which he had
not, by pen or tongue, done some good.
II man begin right, cannot tell hew
many tears he may wipe away, how many
burdens he may lift, how many orphans
he may comfort, how many outcssts he
may reclaim. There have been men who
have given their whole life in the right
direction, concentrating all their wit and
ingenuity, and mental scumen, and
physical force and enthusiasm for Ch' list.
They climbed the mountain, and delved
into the mine, and crossed the sea, and
trudged the desert, and dropped, at last,
into martyrs graves, waiting for the
resurrection of the Just. They measured
their lives by the chains they broke off.
by the garments they put upon nakedness,
by the miles they travelled to alleviate
every kind OF suffering. They felt in the
thrill of every nerve, III the motion OF
every muscle, in every throb Of their
heart, in every respiration of their lungs,
the magnificent truth: "No man liveth
for himself" They went through
rrrh L,.o ,li
cheek smitten, back-scnurged, temp ST.
dashed, to do their whole duty. That is
the wa they measured Iife-by the
amount of good they could do. Do you
want to know how old Luther was; how
old Richard B ,xter was; how old Philip
Doddridge was? Why, you cannot cal
culste the length Of their lives by any
human arithmetic. Add to their lives TO-
900 times 10000 years, and you have not
expressed it-what tn y have lived or will
live. y, what q standard that is to meas
ure mans life by! There are those in
this house who think they have only lived
thirty years. They will have lived
have lived 1000. There
are those who think they are eighty years
Of age; they have not even entered upon
their infancy, for one must become
ABABE IN CHRIST
to begin at all. Now, do not know what
your advantages or disadvantages are;
do not know what your tact or talent is;
| do not know what may be the fasciua-
ton Of your manners or the repu' siveness
Of them; but know this: There is for
you, my bearers, field 10 culture, har-
vest to reap, q tear 10 wipe away, e soul
10 save. If you have worldly means, con-
secrate them TO Christ. II you have elo-
quence, use it on the side that Paul and
Wilberforce used theirs. If you have
learning, put it all in the pOor-boX Uf the
worlds suffering. But If you have none
of these-neither wealth, nor eloquerce,
nor learning-you az any rate have a
smile with which you can encourage the
frown with which you
may blast injustice; voice with W ich
you may call the wanderer back to God.
"O," you say, "thaf is very s8nctimo-
NOUS view OF lfel" 1t is not. 1t is the
only briIht view of life, and it is the only
bright view of death Contrast the death
scene of man who has measured life by
the worldly standard, with the death
scene of a man who has meas
ured life by the Christian stand
ard. Quinn, the actor, in his last
moments said: 81 hope this tragic
scene will soon be over, and 1 hope to
keep my dignity to the last" Malherbe
said in his last moments to the confess
or: "Hold your tongue! your miserable
style puts me out of conceit with
heaven" Lord Chesterfield, in his last
when he ought to have been
praying for his soul, bothered himself
about the prophecies of the sick room,
and said: "GiYe Day boles chair"
6 godfrey Kneller spent his last hours on
earth in drawing a diagram of his own
monument. Compare the silly and hor
rible departure of such mel with the
glow on the face of Z iw&rd
Payson, as he said in his last moment:
1.-The breeZes of heaven fan me. | fiat
in sea of glory" Or with Paul the
Apostle, who said in his lsst hour: 81
an now ready 10 be offered up, and the
time Of my departure is at hard. l
have fought the good fight, I have kept
the faith. Henceforth there is la d up
for me crown of righteousness which
the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give
me-" Or compare it with the Christian
uSdlu-Ocu tldG you "llGSeetu Ill your
own household. Oh, nv friends, this
world is false god! 1t will consume
you with the blaze in which it accepts
your sacrifice, while the righteous shall
be held in everlasting remembrance;
and when the thrones have fallen end the
have crumbled, and the
world has perl>hed, they shall banquet
with the cOnquerors of earth and
THE HIERARCHS OF HEAVEN.
This Is good day in which to begin q
new Style Of measurement. How old
art thou? You see the Christian way of
life and the worldly way of
il? leave it to you to say
which is the wisest and best way. The
wheel of time has turned very swiftly,
has gone. The new year has come. For
what you and have been launched upon
It, God only knows.
Now let me ask you all: Have you
made sny preparation for the future?
You have made preparation for time, my
dear brother; have you made any prepsr-
alton for eternity? Do you wond. that
when that man on The Hudson river, 10
Indignation, tore up the tract which was
handed to him, and just one word landed
IN his coat sleeve-the rest of the tract
being pitched into the riyer-that one
Eord aroused his soui 1t was that one
word, so long, so broad, SO high, SO deep,
eternity! A dying woman, IN her last
said: "Call 1t backl" They
aid: "What do you wan,?" "Time," she